V-1s and V-2s

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A Town Hall in London ANNIE TOOKE kept War Diaries of London when she worked at the Town Hall on Report and...

Doodle-bugs - to Luneberg

I was the sole Typex Cipher bod in the Unit, however it was not until back in Britain afterwards that my...

Four years in Blitz - evacuated at 13

I came from an environment where, meat, sugar, bread, butter, milk, was all very strictly rationed, and...

Fire Service Messengers

I was the Senior Messenger for the Bromley division and often used to ride with the Divisional Officer in...

A Post-Lady in Dunstable

The Methodist church had canteens where we could get chips, Spam, dried egg, slice of bread and a cup of...

D-Day +

We awoke real early to the noise of many, many aircraft, so we went out of the house and looked up, the...

A Child's Recollections of the War

However Streatham and Croydon began to suffer many hits as the rockets fell short of the targets of central...

The V1 That Turned Round

I lived in Putney, south west London, with my Mother, Father and young sister, who was six months old. My...

Child at War: In Becontree

Mum and dad believed fervently in the war against fascism. Dad had been one of those who'd turned out...

My Battle of Waterloo

On the 1st September 1939 the children from St. John's were put on a train at Waterloo, with several...

Was it a V1 or a V2? Palmer's Green and Southgate

We lived in North London on the boundary of Palmers Green, N13 and Southgate, N14. Soon afterwards I...

Memories of World War II

I can still recall vivid images of George Lane STation ablaze after an air-raid as we travelled home on the...

A Child in Wartime London: In Lewisham

I was born in 1935 and lived with my parents at Lee, in the Borough of Lewisham, southeast London...

Last Move

Mrs Druce had two children of her own, Josie and Fred but she also had two Birmingham boys Jim and Les...

A Young Man in Wartime London [D.Gurney : Part 2]

Dennis saw much of london from the buses that continued to run throughout the bombing. Once the scaristan...

How I Was Injured in the Second World War, Following Enemy Action

Every Thursday morning, because of food rationing, my mum and our neighbour would go down to Wright's...

My Wartime Experiences

Once Hitler lost the Battle of Britain in August 1940 and then the night raids, London had a reasonably...

Child of the war story by Marionne

My mother took us away as evacuees again to Frampton Mansell in the Cotswolds — lovely country but...

Doodlebugs

Another time were were in the garden when there were several doddlebugs buzzing about and a hurricane...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

VE Day Street Party

The other nurse was a London girl and her name was Jean. It was 1944 and the incendiary and other bombs had...

Reflections of World War 2

I also remember on one occasion sitting on my bike at the harbour bridge which was open to shipping at the...

A Welsh Guards Tragedy

Have been attached to the Welsh Guards Training battalion based at Sandown Park race track near to Esher...

Memories - Bill Farrant

At about the age of 15 I joined Paterson's Engineering Company, Bow, East London to learn a trade....

Big Ben and Doodle Bugs

On one occasion, I had been out in Felixstowe and was waiting for a Taxi in the railway station, with its...

An Evacuee in Torquay, Devon

My name is Anne Fordham and I was evacuated from my home in Charlton, London, when I was 8 years old to...